Rapture Soon - What in the world is wrong with Christians today?

What in the world is wrong with Christians today?

Maybe that's the problem, too much of the world is in Christians!

2nd Timothy 3:1-5
This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away..

This is certainly true today, if you notice the people in our lives or watch TV you know everyone is all about themselves anymore, it's not just TV shows like Survivor or Big Brother, it's pretty much everything you see on TV.

We are teaching our children that older people are worthless, so don't waste your time on them.

It's all about me anymore, me me me me!

Everyone wants to talk about themselves, people only care about themselves their family and a few select friends, everyone else means nothing to them.

There are older people right here in the good ole USA living on $600.00 dollars a month, that's crazy no one should have to try to get by on that small amount of money.

Think about this, these people are Fathers, Mothers, Grandfathers and Grandmothers, show a little respect America, take better care of the people that cared for us when we were children.

What is your Church doing to help these people?

Does your Church send people to spend time with these people so they don't feel so alone and forgotten?

Does your Church send them a hot meal a day because our government only gives them half enough money to live on?

Does your Church even pray for them, or talk about them, or does it just sweep this subject under the rug?

The same holds true for people on disability, many of these people are very sick and lonely as well.

Does your Church do anything to make their lives a little better?

What about the single Mothers that work two jobs and still can't make enough money to raise their kids, do you as a Christian at lease offer to babysit so the mother can have a night out once in a blue moon?

Do you even show any kind of sign that as a Christian you care about these people in any way?

Revelation 3:15-17
I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked

So the next time you blow $6.00 bucks at starbucks for a cup of coffee or spend $300.00 for an outfit to wear, or you are just riding around in your new SUV, take a look out the window at the old man picking up cans to pay for his meds, then ask yourself what kind of Christian am I?

Jesus understands you can't help everyone, but if you will show an act of kindness whenever you can, that shows Jesus that you do still have love in your heart for others.

If we are true Christians it's time to make a differences in this world, show some love and respect to all of Gods children not just the people in your little circle of friends.

Jesus said in

Matthew 7:12
Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.

Do you keep His commandment? Do you treat ALL others as you want them to treat you?

It's easy to say I am a Christian, but a real Christian is "Christ like" how many people do you know that are truly Christ like?

Think about it, if Jesus saw how you really live and how you treat others would he be happy with you?

Guess what, He does see, He is watching, will you be found worthily of His kingdom?

To many Christians, Christ is little more than an idea, or at best an ideal; He is not a fact. Millions of professed believers talk as if He is real and act as if He is not.

Our actual position is to be discovered by the way we act, not by the way we talk. We can prove our faith by our committal to it, and in no other way. Any belief that does not command the one who holds it is not a real belief; it is a pseudo (artificial) belief only. And it might shock some of us profoundly if we were brought suddenly face to face with our beliefs and forced to test them in the fires of practical living.

Many of us Christians have become extremely skillful in arranging our lives so as to admit the truth of Christianity without being embarrassed by its implications. We arrange things so that we can get on well enough without divine aid, while at the same time ostensibly seeking it. We boast in the Lord but watch carefully that we never get caught depending on Him. "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?"

Pseudo faith always arranges a way out to serve in case God fails it.

Real faith knows only one way and gladly allows itself to be stripped of any second way or makeshift substitutes. For true faith, it is either God or total collapse. And not since Adam first stood up on the earth has God failed a single man or woman who trusted Him.

The man of pseudo faith will fight for his verbal creed but refuse flatly to allow himself to get into a predicament where his future must depend upon that creed being true. He always provides himself with secondary ways of escape so he will have a way out if the roof caves in.

What we need very badly these days is a company of Christians who are prepared to trust God as completely now as they know they must do at the last day. For each of us the time is surely coming when we shall have nothing but God. Health and wealth and friends and hiding places will all be swept away and we shall have only God. To the man of pseudo faith that is a terrifying thought, but to real faith it is one of the most comforting thoughts the heart can entertain.

It would be a tragedy indeed to come to the place where we have no other, but God, and find that we had not really been trusting God during the days of our earthly stay. It would be better to invite God now to remove every false trust, to disengage our hearts from all secret hiding places and to bring us out into the open where we can discover for ourselves whether or not we actually trust Him. That is a harsh cure for our troubles, but it is a sure one. Gentler cures may be too weak to do the work. And time is running out on us.

Remember Jesus loves us all, and we should all love each other.

1 John 4:7-8.
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

Below is a payer to help us remember we are all God's children.

Best Prayer I Have Heard In A Long Time...

Heavenly Father, Help us remember that the jerk who cut us off in traffic last night is a single mother who worked nine hours that day and is rushing home to cook dinner, help with homework, do the dishes & laundry and spend a few precious moments with her children.

Help us to remember that the pierced, tattooed, disinterested young man who can't make change correctly is a worried 19-year-old college student, balancing his apprehension over final exams with his fear of not getting his student loans for next semester.

Remind us, Lord, that the scary looking bum, begging for money in the same spot every day (who really ought to get a job!) is a slave to addictions that we can only imagine in our worst nightmares.

Help us to remember that the old couple walking annoyingly slow through the store aisles and blocking our shopping progress are savoring this moment, knowing that, based on the biopsy report she got back last week, this will be the last year that they go shopping together.

Heavenly Father, remind us each day that, of all the gifts you give us, the greatest gift is love. It is not enough to share that love with those we hold dear. Open our hearts not to just those who are close to us, but to all humanity. Let us be slow to judge and quick to forgive, show patience, empathy and love.

Working for God on earth doesn't pay much... but His retirement plan is out of this world.

May God bless you all.

Rev. JR Seabolt

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